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Territory, metropolis, city: from Urban to Landscape design

The story of an Italy devoted to beauty and art is a fascinating and comforting one, but it doesn’t reflect reality. Italians like to luxuriate in their historical, artistic and scenic heritage, but are less willing to assume responsibility for it. There is an enormous amount of work...

A model of absolute beauty and ideal proportions, this is the building that more than any other epitomizes Palladio's style and it inspired many later buildings. Today the custodian of this masterpiece is a noble family from the Veneto, who care for it with passion (and considerable...

They are what make Italy unique, but tourism is focused on the best-known monuments, while neglecting the country’s many other attractions, which are already suffering from a lack of resources and a reform that gives museums precedence over archaeological services

The public dimension does not belong solely to institutions. Many ordinary citizens are committed to the preservation of a country’s heritage. And they can come together to give rise to extraordinary experiences, like that of the Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI), which has been saving...

In Tuscany a pilot project brings back to life the abandoned villages of the Colline Metallifere, in the province of Siena. The strategy includes eco-camping, an albergo diffuso, historical-cultural tours and good agricultural practices

The Milanese architect Stefano Boeri is building two new temporary structures in Amatrice, the Italian town destroyed by last August’s earthquake. The project provides an opportunity for a wider reflection on building itself and on ways of managing a territory which can revive the economy

As part of a programme of research promoted by the Fondazione di Sardegna, the artist Gianluca Vassallo has tackled the theme of depopulation and contrasted the desires, views and words of the women and men of those troubled lands to the inevitability of fate

Just getting under way in Taormina is a new venture by Antonio Presti, the guru and patron of the arts who has been reclaiming abandoned regions and disadvantaged neighbourhoods for forty years. His work involves complex operations rooted in culture

After eighteen years of complex restoration work the Vijećnica, the library destroyed by incendiary shells during the Bosnian War, reopens to the public. With the marks of devastation erased, the building is once again a symbol of an entire city

Founded in 1961 by Piera Peroni Abitare magazine has crossed the history of costume, architecture and design, international, following in its pages the evolution of our ways of life and how we inhabit places